Volunteering Down South, AmeriCorps Week
and more!
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Every day, more and more families find themselves
in a struggle to keep a decent roof over their heads. Habitat for
Humanity knows that safe, decent and affordable shelter plays a
critical role in helping families to create a new cycle, one filled
with possibilities and progress.
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Volunteering
Down South
We have started hosting
our volunteers for Collegiate Challenge and they did not disappoint.
March kicked off with students from Thomas More College in Kentucky and
followed with students from Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Taking the time to
travel many miles, forfeit your Spring Break, and give back is
something to be admired. We greatly appreciate these students wanting
to better themselves and our community by volunteering.
See photos of their work
on our Facebook Page and like
our page while you are there!
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AmeriCorps Week (Mar. 11-17).
Habitat for Humanity was one of the first organizations
to partner with AmeriCorps when is was founded in 1994. Through this
partnership, more than 10,148 Habitat AmeriCorps members have served
109,830 individuals and engaged more than 3.7 million volunteers.
Habitat for Humanity of
the MS Gulf Coast is proud to host Habitat AmeriCorps members
and we thank all of our current and past members for taking the
opportunity to make a difference.
Below are our current
Habitat AmeriCorps members, Lucas, Anita, Yasmin and Ann with our
AmeriCorps Host Site Manager, Melissa. This year for their service
project, they chose to make frames used to make mats out of
plastic shopping bags for the homeless and made a few mats as well.
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WOMEN
BUILD 2018
The week of Mother’s
Day is Habitat for Humanity’s National Women Build Week.
Habitat Mississippi
Gulf Coast will be hosting our annual Women Build fundraiser in the
four weeks leading up to Mother’s Day. April 17 – May 19, 2018 will
be dedicated to empowering women on the construction site while
raising funds towards sponsoring one house in Harrison
County, one house in Jackson County and working on the houses
during that time.
This 11th annual event
will bring together Mississippi Gulf Coast area women as they grab
their hammers and volunteer along with more than 17,000 women from
across the country who are expected to volunteer at Habitat
construction sites to help create a world where everyone has a
decent, safe and affordable place to call home.
Families with children
with a female head of household make up a staggering number of those
in need of adequate housing.
More than 12 million
children - one in six - live in poverty housing in the United States
alone.
As women let’s
build together to help house those in need THROUGH SHELTER WE
EMPOWER.
Interested in
participating or being a sponsor, email Angela,
or call 228.678.9110.
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The Benefits of Banking.
Our next Financial
Foundations class, The
Benefits of Banking, will be held on March 20, 2018,
at 6:00 p.m. at our office located at 2214 34th Street, Gulfport, MS.
A great course for
those with little experience using banks; this course introduces the
basics of opening and maintaining checking and savings accounts. The
course addressed the hidden traps of check cashing and payday loans
as well as introducing participants to the wide range of free
websites available to help better manage their finances in order to
reach goals.
There is no fee for
this class; however, you will need to register by calling Tomesha
at 228.678.9100, or by email.
Coming Soon...Saving for Security, April
24, 2018. Click
here for a complete
listing of our 2018 classes.
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3x your impact!
Amazon is tripling
the donation rate on your first smile.amazon.com
purchase - through March 31!
Go to smile.amazon.com/ch/20-8133916 and Amazon
donates to Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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When
you shop, shop AmazonSmile!!
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Doing your Spring
Cleaning? Don't forget about our ReStore. We accept new and gently
used builiding supplies, appliances, furniture, home decor and more!
You can drop-off your items, or schedule a free pick-up by calling
228.678.9100.
Sprucing up for
Spring? We can help with that too. Put the ReStore on the top of
your places to shop. We have lots of great finds and
our inventory changes daily.
Don't miss out
on amazing deals! Keep track of what we are up to on our Facebook
page here.
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Be sure to add our email address to
your address book or safe senders list so our emails get to your inbox.
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2214 34th Street,
Gulfport, MS 39501
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